It is not generally known that every probability now exists of this vessel being shortly obliged to discontinue running between this country and America. Indeed, from present prospects we should conceive it an act of madness and extreme folly for her to make another voyage, as it is now certain that every passage made must only contribute to plunge her owners into further difficulties, and render their condition the more desperate. The concern is in the very reverse of a flourishing state, and, unless speedily brought to a close, must involve the proprietary in sad pecuniary difficulty. There are calls and arrears of calls on capital to the amount £27,000, but, of course, in a proprietary of such dismal prospects, it is impossible to say what amount of this is likely to be paid up.—Liverpool Albion. [This statement, so far as relates to the discontinuance of this splendid steamer’s voyages between this country and New York, has been officially contradicted.].
The Illustrated London News, London, England, Week Ending August 27, 1842
